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PETALING JAYA (Nov 19): The Selangor authorities are planning to get an insurance company to provide coverage for private low-cost, high-rise homes, reported The Star today.

PENANG (Nov 19): The state government wants a new mechanism to curb low-cost and low medium-cost home owners from profiting from the sale of such property, reported The Star today.

PENANG (Nov 19): The Pearl of the Orient is world famous for superb hawker food but it looks like many eateries here are getting the F grade for cleanliness.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 19): Paramount Corp Bhd has partnered with University of Wollongong (UOW), an Australian public university, to enhance its tertiary education business.

Gamuda Bhd (Nov 16, RM2.

PETALING JAYA (Nov 18): EdgeProp Sdn Bhd chairman Datuk Tong Kooi Ong emphasised that FundMyHome is an alternative scheme that enables homeownership among first time homebuyers in Malaysia and not about giving the group a "free lunch" on the government's dime.

PETALING JAYA (Nov 18): The FundMyHome public forum moderated by EdgeProp Sdn Bhd chairman Datuk Tong Kooi Ong has offered a clearer picture of how the scheme works and has won more support from the public, according to attendees of the event today.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 17): The news portal Digital News Asia (DNA) has described the FundMyHome platform as a "bold and innovative idea" that could hopefully spark "other established entrepreneurs to think out of the box and come up with their own innovative, boundary pushing ideas on solving market issues".

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 17): Kepong MP Lim Lip Eng says he will lodge a report at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) against former federal territories minister Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, for abuse of power related to 23 development projects last year.

  KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 17): In a statement, the Joland Group of Companies has clarified that that real estate developer Datuk Tan Eng Boon's bribery charge has nothing to do with the sale of Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) land.